news
a report of a recent event; intelligence; information: His family has had no news of his whereabouts for months.
such reports taken collectively; information reported: There's good news tonight.
a person, thing, or event considered as a choice subject for journalistic treatment; newsworthy material.: Compare copy (def. 5).
Origin of news
1Other words from news
- newsless, adjective
- news·less·ness, noun
Words Nearby news
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How to use news in a sentence
The Business Insider publisher is announcing this week the launch of a news bureau in Singapore, kicking off with four reporters and a salesperson.
‘We’re about hiring journalists’: Insider Inc. launches third global news hub in Singapore | Lucinda Southern | September 17, 2020 | DigidayThe president made the assertion during a news briefing where he defended his administration’s response to the pandemic.
Trump contradicts CDC director on vaccine; Biden says Americans shouldn’t trust Trump | Colby Itkowitz, Felicia Sonmez, John Wagner | September 16, 2020 | Washington PostAlongside news of Caputo’s hiatus came word that his deputy, Paul Alexander, would permanently leave.
The Trump administration’s politicization of coronavirus comes to a head | Aaron Blake | September 16, 2020 | Washington PostThe viewers of Striscia la Notizia, a popular satirical news program, are shown “100% Brumotti,” a segment in which Vittorio Brumotti, a noted trick cyclist, roams Italy on his bike combating various social ills.
Vittorio Brumotti Serves Vigilante Justice on a Bike | Tom Vanderbilt | September 15, 2020 | Outside OnlineThe news came hours after Microsoft revealed that TikTok owner ByteDance had rejected its acquisition, putting an end—for now at least—to a geopolitical drama that has roiled the tech world for months.
Almost all of the network and cable news channels said that they would not be showing the cartoons either.
Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead | Luke O’Neil | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTOther major news outlets made the same decision, hiding behind a misplaced sense of multicultural sensitivity.
And extortion makes a lot more sense before a story hits the news wire, not after.
Phylicia Rashad and the Cult of Cosby Truthers | Stereo Williams | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTEarlier this week, Huckabee ended his Fox news talk show so he could spend time mulling another bid for the Republican nomination.
Huckabee 2016: Bend Over and Take It Like a Prisoner! | Olivia Nuzzi | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTTerrorism is bad news anywhere, but especially rough on Odessa, where the city motto seems to be “make love, not war.”
The expatriated ex-rebels became alarmed by the non-receipt of the indemnity instalment and the news from their homes.
The Philippine Islands | John Foremannews came that the rebels were plundering the British quarters, and the infantry went there in hot haste.
The Red Year | Louis TracyA considerable proportion of the industrial and commercial news is now written to an end.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation | H. G. (Herbert George) WellsThe news of these successes brought crowds of volunteers to our standard.
Next morning Judy shouted that there was a rat in the nursery, and thus he forgot to tell her the wonderful news.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard Kipling
British Dictionary definitions for news
/ (njuːz) /
current events; important or interesting recent happenings
information about such events, as in the mass media
the news a presentation, such as a radio broadcast, of information of this type: the news is at six
(in combination): a newscaster
interesting or important information not previously known or realized: it's news to me
a person, fashion, etc, widely reported in the mass media: she is no longer news in the film world
Origin of news
1Derived forms of news
- newsless, adjective
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Other Idioms and Phrases with news
see bad news; break the news; no news is good news.
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